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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Either of two large seals, Mirounga angustirostris of North American Pacific coastal waters or M. leonina of Antarctic and subantarctic coastal waters, the males of which have an inflatable, trunklike proboscis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
seaelephant .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A large
marine mammal of thegenus Mirounga , which is the largest of thepinnipeds .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks
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madmouth commented on the word elephant seal
they keep harems, for one thing. the males gore each other something awful, and during a battle they often smother cubs without noticing.
July 3, 2009